It has finally decided to stop raining in Sydney and it’s a sunny, warm, blue-sky Tuesday morning in early May. Six years later, we’re walking through Sydney’s Botanic Garden. The stories kept coming, and he finished each one with the words that went through his head every time this stuff happened – “OK, this is insane.” He told me about the day his debut album, 2012’s Flume, knocked One Direction off the top of the Australian charts and the group’s fans hurled a Twitter tornado of abuse towards him. We’d driven to the headland in his luxury Tesla and he was telling me stories about Elon Musk asking him for his opinions of the car at an LA party held by Sean Parker, the multi-billionaire co-founder of Napster and former president of Facebook. ![]() The world knew Streten better as Australian electronic artist Flume. It was 2016, and I was sitting with 24-year-old Harley Streten on a headland overlooking his local surf spot at Manly Beach. It’s no secret that Coachella is one of the largest and most glamorous festivals in the world.Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]() Featuring a massive star-studded lineup year after year, while countless attendees were flocking to the Empire Polo Club surely in preparation for Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, Kanye’s “Sunday Service” performance and more, Diplo, Flume and numerous other electronic acts were having a secret transformative experience of their own only a few miles away.ĭuring the first weekend of Coachella, less than a day after Diplo threw down in the Sahara Tent on Friday night, the superstar producer found himself amongst a select few celebrities from all walks of life to participate in a two-day chill-out event called “ Secular Sabbath”. The unique series is a truly one of a kind experience put on by RHYE and his girlfriend Genevieve Medow-Jenkins. Check out their Instagram page here.įeaturing a live, improvised set from Flume, performances from The Glitch Mob’s Ooah and of course Diplo himself as well as sunrise yoga, CBD massages and a thermal soaking pool, the event was far from a Coachella after party, being deemed by Diplo as “kind of like the anti-festival”. Our center point is music, which is proven to have deep psychological and subliminal effects on human beings.” – via the Secular Sabbath website “The space is constructed of sensory experiences that invite the experiencer to drop into their sensory selves: the way they hear, smell, taste, touch, and see. Held at the Two Bunch Palms resort outside of Palm Springs (less than 30 miles from Coachella), the event, curated by California native Genevieve Medow-Jenkins and her boyfriend/business partner Michael Milosh (aka Rhye), was the 17th Secular Sabbath experience since its inception in 2016. With a long history of recruiting incredible performers for a one-of-a-kind refreshing, communal experience, it’s no wonder Diplo & Flume (who wasn’t on this year’s Coachella lineup) decided to skip out on weekend one for some unique rest & relaxation.In a new interview on the My Friend Podcast with Paige Elkington, Flume gets very real about a variety of topics, including his infamous Burning Man ass-eating video, as well as how he used to “self-medicate” with alcohol to be comfortable performing on stage and how he feels similar to Avicii in that respect.Īs we learned after the Burning Man incident, Paige is actually Flume’s girlfriend, so him being on her podcast isn’t so random. The episode was recorded just as “social distancing” entered the public’s vernacular, so keep that in mind as you listen or read along. ![]() It begins with Flume saying he needs to talk shit on someone famous because “that’s how you get headlines” (he’s not wrong) and they jokingly trash Brad Pitt before leading into Burning Man. “Someone put up a sign saying ‘Does Flume even eat ass?’ and I did a little finger click, nod, and a point. And they put up another sign that said ‘prove it.’ You saw the sign and jumped up on the megadeck, put your butt up in the air …” and Paige continues, “and you put your face in there for like maybe two seconds.” “I’m kind of like the Michael Cera of electronic music,” Flume said, “and if Michael Cera ate ass at Burning Man, everyone would be like…” as he trailed off. “There were some business things I had in the works that fell through because they didn’t want to be associated with it, because I was in the press for eating ass.” “I was championed in Australia as a legend.
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